New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-06-29
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70 THE ALPHA DELTA PHIL

,r CENTENNIAL OF THE AM
CELEbhA arssr CHATTER,
"a me commemorative address
NJ. rnhlic exercises TINS "o'"'us en-
Asn,enpial celebration Oh '"o -s'" n.s -
semfeen'o" ~. Alpha Delta Phi fraternity
ter OF 'ao ,,e Row. Dr. r. s. storrs. OF Brooklyn
was deive' The Broader Range and Oatlo'k OF the
His sapSo S,,srs Training He neean with reference
Mcae'. ary DAYS OF Amherst ana .aG ,snI VIM gn
which t.o ~, oower and influence of Alpha Delta
si The body OF his pois1s ,picsl sudy-is given in
exposition Of tho '"i"0 "
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'a and tines with tho exacting aai disciplinary
distant -. own ancestors of other peoples. dis
eSp,rt To certain oxteat foreign travel does this.
."',' ~. the immsasura5iy wider eNpanssS MEL with
.,,c ard laoorIous life. In contrast Win me mar
' - ...ne. with which one before hal boon familiar;
Tow" h, has stool with any thoughtsuiness amid the
90. imuensitIes London empire In ITSELF who
g, through whrs of ren!nscence the
streets of its stately bouleyarls or who has
the Inter Linden from tho schoss 10 the Braa
s,,-r Gate: before whom Munich Vienna Venice, Flor
nc Naplcs Madrid have opened their treasures To
hom Rome has appeared across the Campagnsa city a.
ct Of the past with the dome o later date roof
ing the its existing empire OF sons-snch man can
svrr AGAIN be- in mind in of thought In intellectual
.vm,athy bsforc the broadening experience
that tern modes of foreign travel be-
came efucatonal those multiplying in all our
mmuhites essentially wened in view. by
,.r accuaintsucc lands for tho contemplation Of
rroxnae questions The parish period has almost disap
nearea from even our popular mental DEVELOPMENT
Rat history carefully stuliedsudsd as it should
M win maps topographic plans careful itineraries photo
raphs OF sightsdoes the same thing for
the kesp!ng student and does in important
spects n and bolder fashion Egypt Greece As
yr Persia scanty aud rugged strip Of Palestine from
which Influences have come to The World iaa
China The vast ousus.c OF nn' IRON as q, 'n ,bs
lands Of the frozen mammoth and the mianight sun
ne TO the business; bi they com 9etors n' IN te n,o
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and which the asyout mind discovers the
from initial naopcss that are noTon . dover
,DS combinations ami military coisons which preceded
Of Emsand BY IN: e. the Ss; ons
who Iesas with comprehensive attention THIS im%snss
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natural impulse with those suo%e scientific ecu M
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beauty for beautiful sonis.
VARIOUS MENTAL DISCIPLINE.
merely general expansion OF thought and one may
say compass Of the mind comes with this oureachg
study OF history directly. with vigorous force In
proportion chief intellectual faculty In this respect
1t often msconceved those who regard II pleasant
exercise ones leisure but not to be recIoned
on as upartng the mind elastic vigor fresh robust
aertness Of power special capacity OF per-
csptive insight OF the memory will be trained
haps admit effort to hold distant periods and
persons distinctly view to keep epochs. and the move
ments which marlod them from 5ccom NJ confused and
enanglei IN thought and to recall without reference to
books which tendencies affecting subsequent Gen.
slowly suddenly became apparent or at which i'm
parant tributary influences In TO reinforce th9m But
beyond memory often is doubted history Offers
discipline to the mind which it.
On an evident TO be Questioned that
the vgant analytic and reconcng igmeLt BY which
separate things differ and harmonic and things
however unlike in outward show. by which wo
exate governing beneath phen aad sst
their synhe the individual designs and the public
aspirations which In movements OF general I'M
poanceat this noble power essentially trained as
certainly constantly exercised study OF history
think will that for themselves no
mental practice has had closer relation TO this
aud enduring effect and satisfied that In either
OF the proeson IN Journalism In educational work or in
the simply private life OF educated Citizen the effect will
ep2ear to wide and searching historical
injuries will be in judging even OF practical
questions to-day and will have moro discerning
apprehension OF tho forces working TO mocifv legislation ana
mould sociey-forces which often formidable or
replee with victorious energy because subtle and
occult
1t seems to me plain the nutive moral
10 which action give its account
and by which its character interpreted and which
puts CANDID or if a
with SPECIAL environments OF time or OF place must hero mud
a. any aepartnsus Of unan aud
wtich Of courae does hot rank with the
creative imagination the poet but which Is surely akin to
that and psrars ess capable OF giving Indictment and
Indictment aud sasenance In the study Of ne past a. cannot
Pc and mnss which have have
ia thu 1F aH 1ns e I Sau
equation has and ts sn
IN form at al Witch .d the
wen az discnrsve amt commanding INTEL hecoras
ns aSe had ed up to tho survey Of genius
living forms vanished times have had 10 be recontru,ed
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whom they addressed and before whom
the story OF u the
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hsesaIy who read. history learns TO as,,ns% lo
what issssras to
general sInSpls. Away. and sSsIyxhsIs
sy eoSmani,y they are SlenGsd and with Which
nnS HEY Hence are s ID % s
he Writers Of modern have surpassed
ADDS are Snequai.d in Depth and er.c,sion
even in the works Of our mere we often meet WITH
This testimony OF delighted to tear the vgor
and flower of h life from the Bar and the Senate from off,
cal distinction social opportunities that
might survey with ample while investigating with
microscope record. OF the past reading
week TO fashion sentence finding ewsrd for laboons
the more lively OF phrase the lucid complete
ness OF paragraph II we need to IN near example tbs
fitness Of historical studies to quicken and msiutan high
mental enthusiasm aud discipline aud we'll as TO
enlist various mental powers certainly find
the immediate In the Instance of Lori Macau
lay.
THE MORAL IMPULSE.
college ko this and audience like the present
gratefully recognize large and full
moral Impulse delivered upon spe prepared receive